Klami: Kalevala Suite & Sea Pictures

"This is quite welcome, for it introduces us to the Moods of Op. 10. Certainly this is well played and extremely well recorded and it is cheap enough to be easily recommended."
- Bauman, American Record Guide May/June 2002

"While everything on this disc is attractive, the most captivating music resides in the five pieces from 1907, composed as pictures of his wife Otilie, who tragically had died two years before, as a memento for Suk's young son. Their searching, often quite dissonant harmonies along with the occasional passionate outbursts suggest rage about the composer's loss as well as sadness. Risto Lauriala is always responsive to Suk's bitter-sweet muse..."
- Jan Smaczny, BBC Music Magazine, April 2002

"[Suk's] piano music is some of the most attractive in the whole of Czech music... Lauriala has a quick gift for characterisation, whether with the 'Capricietto' or the longer lyrical lines of the 'Song of Love', both from Op. 7. He also has a good ear for the sometimes subtle forms which underly Suk's invention and which lend them strength. About Mother ('O matince') is the sequence of five pieces in which Suk mourned the death of his young wife Otylka, Dvorak's daughter, with some musical memories for their son. Lauriala handles well the affecting piece in which the insistent, halting throb reflects the fragile beat of Otylka's heart, and plays the final 'Memories' simply and touchingly."
- John Warrack, Gramophone, April 2002

MOZART: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 4

Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

Handel: Organ Concertos, Op. 4, Nos. 1-6

"Jeno Jando is at his best in the simple Adagios and Allegrettos...He gives a strongly impulsive and exciting account of the Fantasia in C, which ends the recital boldly...There is much to enjoy and the recording is up to standard."

Penguin Guide [2003/4 Edition]

STRAUSS, R.: Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel / Death and Transf

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Woo 47, 'Kurfurstensonaten'

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-10

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 11-16 and 18

JANACEK: Along an Overgrown Path / Piano Sonata, 'From the S

SIBELIUS: Kullervo, Op. 7

Schubert: 6 Moments Musicaux, D. 780 / 3 Piano Pieces, D. 94

Beethoven: Essence of the Beethoven Symphonies (The)

SCRIABIN: Symphony No. 2 / Symphonic Poem in D Minor